Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-08
ANorHrn CHANCE.
The Appeal in the Balm Csse--so-
e,ous Arcfuent-Stnbbed, &c.


Correspondence Of tho Richmond Dispssch.l
NoKroLB, Feb. 7, 1887.
To-day the Supreme Court granted
the ha6cds corpus asked for by the
counsel of Mr.. George M. Balm, late
cashier OF the Exchange National BANK,
and the case will be heard the first
Monday in March. A writ will be
served on Marshal Scott tomorrow to
show cause why he holds Mr.. Balm in
custody, and when the case comes up
the marshal will take Mr. Balm and the
record TO Washington. In the mean
time the prisoner and two deputy mar
shells are quartered at the Purcell House
Mt the expense of the family.
Mr.. John Graham, q feeble and ven
cradle gentleman, and veteran OF Pick
ett- Buchanan Camp, while passing down
Bank street this morning, slipped on
banana peel and fell to the pavement
with such force as to badly fracture his
right leg. He was sent to his home by
friends and cared for as speedily "a
possible. d,
MajorJohn K Cooke quietly breathed
his last at his residence, in Portsmouth,
yesterday afternoon, after a lingering
illness During the war he was q gal
LIANT officer in the Army of Northern
Virginia When n young man he vol
unteered for service in the Mexican war
and served throughout that campaign
as first lieutenant of the company that
went out from Portsmouth. He was a
gentleman of the old school, and dis
tinguished for patriotic ardor, and es-
pecially for his intense Virginianism.
He was nearly seventy-six years old.
Pay-Director Rufus Parks and Sur
geon George A. Bright. of the navy
yard, are confined to their homes by
illness. Lieutenant John G. Irvine has
reported for duty on the receiving-ship
Franklin.
Twenty-three miles of rope, besides
small cordage, has been used in reht-
ting the rigging of the flagship Tren-
ton.
A man named Joshua Hogg, Of
Scots creek, in n fight with John Mar
tin, in Portsmouth, early Sunday morn
ing, was stabbed five times in the face
and head with clasp-knife. This morn
ing Martin was committed for trial.
The contributions from all sources
for the relief of the destitute families
of the recently-drowned life-sayers,
when fully in, will reach nearly $1,000.
The Maritime Exchange of New York
and the city of Baltimore contributed
nobly. This, with the two years pay
allowed by the Government, will take
care of the unfortunate ones for some
time; and they may be allowed pen
siOns, as the men lost their lives in the
discharge of duty.
The remains of the gallant Confed-
crate veteran, Sergeant Wallace Will
liams, Company X, Ninth Virginia,
Pickett's division, one of the men who
scaled the heights of Cemetery Ridge
in the world-renowned charge Mt Gettys-
burg, were laid away in ElmwoOd yes
terday afternoon with imposing solemn
ty by the military of the two cities and
the veterans of kett-Buchanan and
Stonewall Camps.
About $50 were received last week
from charitable persons i'll Richmond
for the NewsbOys' Home here.
Judge Hill will render his decision
in the election contest Thursday or
Friday.
Two Portsmouth engineers left to-
day for distant voyages-James Nichol-
son, as engineer on the Brazilian Line
steamship Finance for Rio, and A. b.
Dnugherty, on the United States steam
ship Thetis, to 20 to Alaska. G..